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Levenshtein Distance

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Similar words to deliver in Corpus

Levenshtein Double Levenshtein SoundEx MetaPhone Manually curated
deliver (0) - 47 freq
deleiver (1) - 4 freq
delivers (1) - 2 freq
delivert (1) - 10 freq
delivery (1) - 49 freq
deleivert (2) - 6 freq
deceiver (2) - 2 freq
denier (2) - 1 freq
deliverit (2) - 4 freq
deliveran (2) - 2 freq
derived (2) - 12 freq
deleer (2) - 1 freq
reiver (2) - 22 freq
derive (2) - 2 freq
deleever (2) - 3 freq
diver (2) - 5 freq
deive (2) - 1 freq
delve (2) - 6 freq
deliverer (2) - 7 freq
delivered (2) - 36 freq
eliven (2) - 1 freq
delved (2) - 2 freq
deliveren (2) - 1 freq
believer (2) - 4 freq
sliver (2) - 8 freq
deliver (0) - 47 freq
deleiver (1) - 4 freq
delivery (1) - 49 freq
delivert (2) - 10 freq
deleever (2) - 3 freq
delivers (2) - 2 freq
liver (3) - 34 freq
daiver (3) - 4 freq
deliveren (3) - 1 freq
oliver (3) - 10 freq
believer (3) - 4 freq
sliver (3) - 8 freq
delivirt (3) - 1 freq
dreiver (3) - 1 freq
deliverin (3) - 15 freq
deleiverie (3) - 1 freq
delivered (3) - 36 freq
cliver (3) - 12 freq
driver (3) - 92 freq
delved (3) - 2 freq
deleer (3) - 1 freq
deliverit (3) - 4 freq
deliveran (3) - 2 freq
deceiver (3) - 2 freq
diver (3) - 5 freq
SoundEx code - D416
deleivert - 6 freq
deleeberate - 3 freq
delivert - 10 freq
deliver - 47 freq
delivered - 36 freq
deliberate - 19 freq
deleever - 3 freq
delivery - 49 freq
deliverin - 15 freq
deliverance - 4 freq
deliberatin - 1 freq
deleeverie - 1 freq
deliveren - 1 freq
delivers - 2 freq
deliberately - 22 freq
dollybird - 1 freq
delivirt - 1 freq
deliv'rance - 1 freq
deliverit - 4 freq
deliberatelie - 1 freq
deliverer - 7 freq
delïvert - 1 freq
deliveran - 2 freq
deliverin' - 11 freq
day-labourers - 1 freq
deliveries - 4 freq
deliberative - 1 freq
deleiverit - 1 freq
deleiver - 4 freq
deleeveries - 1 freq
deleiverie - 1 freq
dileeberate - 1 freq
deleiverlie - 1 freq
deleiberate - 3 freq
deleiverin - 1 freq
€˜delieverit - 1 freq
deleevirt - 1 freq
deleeberately - 6 freq
deleeverin - 1 freq
deliberation - 1 freq
deleevries - 1 freq
delibritlee - 1 freq
delivering - 2 freq
MetaPhone code - TLFR
deliver - 47 freq
deleever - 3 freq
delivery - 49 freq
deleeverie - 1 freq
deleiver - 4 freq
deleiverie - 1 freq
telfer - 2 freq
tailfer - 1 freq
DELIVER
Time to execute Levenshtein function - 0.180459 milliseconds
The Levenshtein distance is the number of characters you have to replace, insert or delete to transform one word into another, its useful for detecting typos and alternative spellings
Time to execute Double Levenshtein function - 0.355093 milliseconds
In a stroke of genius, this runs the Levenshtein function twice, once without vowels and adds the distance together, giving double weight to consonants.
Time to execute SoundEx function - 0.027547 milliseconds
Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. The goal is for homophones to be encoded to the same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in spelling.
Time to execute MetaPhone function - 0.037358 milliseconds
Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, published by Lawrence Philips in 1990, for indexing words by their English pronunciation.[1] It fundamentally improves on the Soundex algorithm by using information about variations and inconsistencies in English spelling and pronunciation to produce a more accurate encoding, which does a better job of matching words and names which sound similar.
Time to execute Manually curated function - 0.000944 milliseconds
Manual Curation uses a lookup table / lexicon which has been created by hand which links words to their lemmas, and includes obvious typos and spelling variations. Not all words are covered.